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Weird Local Commercials

Adult Swim | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Video, Weird Commercials, Strange Ads, Weird Local Ads, Public Access, Adult Swim, Weird Photos & Videos, Weird TV, Homemade Commercials, Weird News News

Commercials are designed to imprint the product on the customer's brain. Adult Swim has compiled some local TV spots that are so bad, so strange, i...

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Ramirez Canyon Blues: Yet Another Fight to Preserve Public Access in Malibu

John Mirisch | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Preservationism, Lobbying, Malibu, Public Access, Ramirez Canyon, Environmentalism, State Parks, Nimbyism, Conservatonism, Los Angeles News
John Mirisch

While Gov. Brown rightly recognized the long-term negative impacts of Schwarzenegger's proposed selling off of state assets, his most recent budget proposal proposes to sell off state-owned parkland.

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Save the "Street": A Technological Reboot in Order for Public Television?

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pbs, Internet, Sesame Street, Public Access, Nightly Business Report, Technology, PBS Documentaries, Carmen-Sandiego, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, Kcet, Digital Divide, Antiques-Roadshow, Media News
Christina Gagnier

As we move forward with the development of free platforms to create dynamic programming online, an American institution has been left behind: public television.

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The Most Ridiculous Public Access Moments Of All Time (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Morgan Evans | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Access Moments, Funniest Public Access Moments, Funny Videos, Public Access, Slidepoll, Comedy Slideshows, Comedy News

In a world before YouTube, the only home for ordinary people with something to say was on public access television. Though it lacks the glamor and pre...

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The Ultimate Act of Cowardice in the Prop 8 Case

Fred Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Court Proceedings, Supreme Court, California, Proposition 8, Hak-Shing William Tam, Public Access, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Fred Silberberg

In essence, the same people who used the public as a sword in their quest to attack gay rights, are the same people who have now successfully used the court system as a shield from the public eye.

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No One Has the Sense to Protect These Children

Fred Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pbs, Child-Protection, Confidentiality, An American Family, Divorce, Children, Jon and Kate Gosselin, Jon and Kate, Parenting, Psychological-Effects-of-Divorce, Celebrity Kids, Common Sense, Public-Access, Jon-and-Kate-Gosselin-Divorce, Loud Family, Divorce Court, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Home News
Fred Silberberg

Certainly no one asked these eight small children whether they wanted what would otherwise have been a private, and hopefully somewhat innocent childhood, kept that way.

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Dec. 31: By Way of Follow-Up

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: City of Los Angeles, Sag, Time Warner Cable, Time Warner, Directors, Writers, Dga, Public Access, WGA Strike, Los Angeles, Media News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

LA, as a municipality, is responsible for operating public access channels, and no cable company has the right to shut them down until the City has the opportunity to replace the channels.

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